 | Anderson, J.L. 1966 Tooth replacement and dentition of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis Linn). Lammergeyer 6: 41-46, pls. 1-2, figs. 1-2, tables A-B |
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| The basic dentition of the black rhino is four premolars and three molars in both upper and lower jaw. (Gray 1861 and Roberts 1951). Ritchie (1963) in Kenya, has recorded three premolars and three molars as a variation to the standard dentition; he mentions that the first premolar is missing in ... |
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| Anderson, J.L. 1966 Tooth replacement and dentition of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis Linn). Lammergeyer 6: 41-46, pls. 1-2, figs. 1-2, tables A-B |
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| Diceros bicornis - South Africa. Within the collection, three of the specimens have two pairs of lower incisors, two animals being calves (H 40 and H 888), the other a fourteen-month-old male (H 11). A further two skulls have one pair of incisors in the lower jaw, on a mature animal (H 29) and ... |
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| Wilson, V.J.; Edwards, P.W. 1965 Data from a female rhinoceros and foetus (Diceros bicornis Linn.) from the Fort Jameson District. Puku 3: 179-180, tables 1-2 |
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| Female shot in Zimbabwe. The pregnant cow had not attained full permanent dentition. The third lower molars were just cutting through the gums, and the third upper molars just penetrating the jawbone. |
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| Cave, A.J.E. 1959 The foramen ovale in the Rhinocerotidae. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Zoology Sect 5, paper 20: 1-3 |
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| Foramen ovale in all species. Phylogenetic significance has been accorded to the individualization of cranial foramina and taxonomic importance to the foramen ovale. The separate passage of the mandibular branch of the foramina has been considered an advanced morphological character, and its al... |
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| Heuertz, H. 1947 Quelques obsevations morphologiques sur le crane des Rhinocerotides. Archives de l'Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg 17: 65-72 |
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| Schouteden, H. 1945 De zoogdieren van Belgisch-Congo en van Ruanda-Urundi, part 2. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge (C/II) 3 (2): 169-332 |
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| I 0/0, C 0/0, Pm 4-3/4-3, M 3/3. |
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| Carter, T.D.; Hill, J.E. 1942 Notes on the lesser one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus, 1. A skull of Rhinoceros sondaicus in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 1206: 1-3, pl. 1 |
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| While comparing skulls of Recent Indian rhinoceroses with skeletal remains of a fossil Chinese rhinoceros, Dr. E. H. Colbert discovered a skull that did not belong to the species R. unicornis, although it was so labeled and had been purchased as such. The molar teeth with anterolateral buttresse... |
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| Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 |
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| seven cheek-teeth on each side, the first premolar remaining throughout life. |
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| Chapman, A. 1921 Savage Sudan: its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life. London and Edinburgh, Gurney and Jackson, pp. i-xx, 1-452 |
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| In the skull of the white rhino there occurs immediately in front of the eye a sort of double bony projection which entirely prevents its seeing straight ahead. This is much less pronounced in R. bicornis. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| The Indian rhinoceros usually has one pair of upper and two of lower incisors; the outermost pair of' the latter being large, tusk-like, and projecting from the angles of the lower jaw, so as to make formidable weapons of offence. The cheek-teeth are characterised by their flat plane of wear and... |
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